april

Now in this long-deferred spring...
- Sylvia Townsend Warner



Now in this long-
deferred spring,
Blackthorn bush by the way-
side what do you say?


Summer was a burning fever,
Winter a cold fever.
I was spared by neither.


But yet your cramped boughs
are pricked with flowers.


By rote, by rote,
These blossoms I put out.
They have not anything
to do with this spring.

They are but the badge
of an old pledge.
Farewell, and overlook
these white ashes among the black.

Peep Dioramas

The annual Washington Post Peep Diorama will announce it's winners on April 13 -- but there is still time to vote for the Fan Favorite HERE. There are some great ones -- Though I may still be traumatized by the "It's A Small World" ride, and/or the Sterling Cooper riding mower incident.....

notarysojac loved the terracotta warriors,
but I had to go for the Hitchcock



Jill Goebel of Alexandria spotlights an unsuspecting Bunny Hedren in her diorama titled "Alfred Hitchcock Presents 'The Peeps'"